Re: [Full-disclosure] Associate professor from Pakistan National University - spammer

[Tonu Samuel <tonu@xxxxxxx>]

On 2012/08/16, at 12:49, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:55:41 +0900, Tonu Samuel said:
> 
>> I found that person who is spamming
>> OpenCV list with "Plz visit my e-gaming site at http://."; is PhD
> 
> So... did you establish that the person doing the spamming actually *is*
> that professor, or merely somebody who managed to phish the professor's
> credentials and is using their identity to send the spam? (We get 5 or 10 
> phished
> users a day, and maybe 1 or 2 actual spammers a year)

I handle spam cases daily too and I find new spammers weekly. And I do lot of 
analysis do be able to prove what I say in my blog. I have sued few times and 
get lot of letters from data protection authority but was till now prove my 
words.

In this case there are facts you can easily verify:

There is a gaming site meyraj.com, registered to this professor name. Not 
company, not someone else but he personally runs it.
There is a Facebook wall https://www.facebook.com/fahim.arif.9 where we can see 
posts advertising same site for two years. Look on all details of this account.
There are 175688 tweets on http://twitter.com/Meyraj about this gaming site
There are spams over half year in OpenCV lists under his name and Software 
Engineer related to computer vision does not notice it.

Knowing this please explain the motivation of some "hacker" to advertise his 
site. 
I am not so naive. I also have lot of experience dealing with them and many of 
them try to tell me that someone else did spamming trying to advertise their 
sites etc. My experience is identical to one listed here 
http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/ROKSO%20FAQ
and it says: 
"
However, correcting what a spammer claims is an 'error' is not as straight 
forward as it may seem, since spammers are not people known for honesty; in 
fact they are almost all con men, fraudsters and chronic liars. Spamhaus 
regularly receives letters from spammer's lawyers attempting to claim that all 
of a spammers records are in error and demanding all therefore be removed. We 
naturally pay little attention to such requests. A request by a spammer for 
correction of a record must point to exactly what information is in error and 
must include verifiable proof that the error is indeed an error."


   Tonu


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